Definition of "vespertine" in English

adjective

1. (poetic) Of or related to the evening; that occurs in the evening.

   • 1837, William Evans Burton (editor), Philadelphia in the Dog Days: An Incoherency, Burton's Gentleman's Magazine and American Monthly Review, Volume 1: July—December, page 131, The peripatetics issue forth to indulge in the usual vespertine locomotion; and stroll gently down the aristocratic Chesnut and up the sedate and solid-seeming Mulberry, or vice versa.

2. (astrology, of a planet or star) That sets after the sun.

3. (zoology, of an animal) That is principally active at dusk.

4. (botany) Occurring in the evening.

5. (botany, of a plant) That opens or blooms in the evening.